
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

Danila Kozlovsky
Alexey

Oksana Akinshina
Olga

Philipp Avdeev
Valera

Ravshana Kurkova
Dina

Arthur Beschastny
Stysin

Nikolay Kozak
Military diver Boris

Igor Chernevich
Tropin

Anton Shvarts
Soldier

Andrey Archakov

Samvel Tadevossian
Firefighter Tigran

Dmitry Beseda
Appeared in fragment

Pavel Davydov
Liquidator

Dmitry Matveev
Firefighter Yuri Kondratyuk

Mariya Abramova
Katia
Daniela Bogatyreva
Appeared in fragment

Alexander Alyabyev

Nikolay Samsonov
Firefighter Kolya

Mariya Ulyanova
Kolya's wife

Anatoly Prosalov
The girl's father on the bus
Alina Milkova
Evacuation participant
Danila Kozlovsky
Alexey Kazakov, Elena Ivanova
Released